from Huffington Post, Sen. Bernie Sanders, VT:
poll after poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans want their food labeled for genetically modified ingredients, but the agri-businesses, in our typical corporatocracy, have successfully lobbied against labeling. Studies have shown some disturbing trends but no "smoking gun" yet. It's the same process we're seeing now w/ fracking, esp here in Ohio where a local community college and a high school will be offering courses to students who want to work for the fracking folks.
Fine. But as I've been saying for quite a while now, why the rush? Why can't we wait until we know if this process is safe? No objective scientific report has been conducted on the safety/problems of the modern fracking processes.Yet everybody is jumping in w/ both feet. I can understand the industries themselves--they're just doing what they're supposed to do--make money. But what I can't understand is the level of complicity and complacency by citizens in general but specifically our institutions of learning. Just seems so . . . reckless.
Why shouldn't a mother know if the food she's about to feed her daughter has genetically modified ingredients or not? Why shouldn't we know definitively if fracking poses risks to our water or to our long-term health? (just to name a couple concerns) Again, even if you're on the side of industry, what's the downside of prudence?
Unlike people in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, China, Russia, New Zealand and other countries where labels are required, Americans don't know if the food they eat has been genetically altered.you can read the rest of Sen. Sanders's rationale as to why we should require food providers to label our food re genetically modified ingredients here.
poll after poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans want their food labeled for genetically modified ingredients, but the agri-businesses, in our typical corporatocracy, have successfully lobbied against labeling. Studies have shown some disturbing trends but no "smoking gun" yet. It's the same process we're seeing now w/ fracking, esp here in Ohio where a local community college and a high school will be offering courses to students who want to work for the fracking folks.
Fine. But as I've been saying for quite a while now, why the rush? Why can't we wait until we know if this process is safe? No objective scientific report has been conducted on the safety/problems of the modern fracking processes.Yet everybody is jumping in w/ both feet. I can understand the industries themselves--they're just doing what they're supposed to do--make money. But what I can't understand is the level of complicity and complacency by citizens in general but specifically our institutions of learning. Just seems so . . . reckless.
Why shouldn't a mother know if the food she's about to feed her daughter has genetically modified ingredients or not? Why shouldn't we know definitively if fracking poses risks to our water or to our long-term health? (just to name a couple concerns) Again, even if you're on the side of industry, what's the downside of prudence?
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